Friday, March 13, 2015

Warm hugs and triumphant laughs were shared when Crown Princess Mary
proudly received her good friend Princess Mabel, the widow of Prince
Friso, on stage at the Champions for Change event at the enchantingly
stunning Banqueting Hall in London on Thursday.
As patron of the event, Crown Princess Mary shared the key role with
the evening’s award winners one of them being Princess Mabel of
Orange-Nassau. All the winners were awarded with the Champions for
Change Award for their work promoting women’s and girls’ rights.
Princess Mabel was commended for her efforts in seeking to end child
marriages.

Photo: AOP

Crown Princess Mary and Princess Mabel are both passionate advocates
of equality between the sexes, and as Mabel arrived on stage she was
greeted with approving smiles from her Danish colleague with whom she
shared warm hugs and kisses on the cheek.
Wearing a powder pink, pleated dress with a brooch-like detail at the
neck, Crown Princess Mary delivered the event’s keynote speech in which
she spoke about her recent working visit to Ethiopia and the harsh
encounter with circumcised girls from the Afar region.

Her speech was well received by the predominantly English audience in
the Banqueting Hall, after which Mary was hailed by the next speaker on
stage.Text via Royalista.